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Re: Purdue 2012-2013 Athletics thread

Basketball team's not very good. My hopes of 20 wins and tourney bubble are dwindling fast, but that's OK. This is a pretty talented group, add next year's class (assuming little Everette gets right), and then the big returns I expect in 2014+, we're in business. Hammons is going to be a stud, think he may be able to go pro after his junior year.

Anyway, there's rumors of Burke putting out feelers to Butch Jones at Cincinnati. I'm not head over heels with that name, his whole career's been a couple years of good records coaching Brian Kelly's players. But if, if, IF, that's true, I'm absolutely head over heels with the search for a replacement. I'm going off the top of my head so this could be wrong, but Hope makes like $950k. Jones, at UC, makes I think $1.3 mil plus a 500k buyout.

THIS is what needs to happen. If you expect to compete for the occasional conference title when the breaks go your way you're not doing it with the lowest salaried head coach AND the lowest salaried group of assistant coaches.

Re: Purdue 2012-2013 Athletics thread

That has the potetential to be a really stacked 2014 Maui invite. Depending on how Hammons (and a couple other recruits for the other teams) pan out I could see top 25 teams of Zona, Purdue, Pitt, San Diego St, Mizzou, and K St.

Re: Purdue 2012-2013 Athletics thread

Danny Hope's had 3 wins against teams that finished the year with a winning record in his entire Purdue tenure

...which is just getting started! (OK, probably not). But I wonder why people are so confident he is getting canned. I am also not sold on this NIU guy, since he has only been there 2 years, so who knows if he can recruit.

People aren't going to like this, but what about Jim Chaney? His HC just got fired at UT, but the offense was not the problem this year.

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...which is just getting started! (OK, probably not). But I wonder why people are so confident he is getting canned. I am also not sold on this NIU guy, since he has only been there 2 years, so who knows if he can recruit.

I'm not convinced he'll go at this point either. I think he saved his job the last three weeks.

Also, Marve has quickly made me a huge fan of his. The play where he ran down the defender after his INT was awesome.

Re: Purdue 2012-2013 Athletics thread

If winning 3 games (first 3 game winning streak of Hope's Purdue career btw) against the worst 3 teams in the conference and finishing a regular season at .500 (w/ no wins against bowl eligible teams) is enough for Hope to keep his job then not just hope but Morgan Burke need to be fired. The absolute only case for Burke to keep Hope is he's fine with mediocrity.

Burke's 100% driven by keeping the athletic department in the black. Attendance has declined every year of Hope's tenure. Making bottom tier bowls doesn't help the finances either, a lot of the time they end up actually costing schools money. I have absolutely no doubt Hope's gone. I don't take pleasure in it, I think Hope's a good man and players genuinely like playing for him so I hope he lands on his feet, but he is nowhere near a Big Ten coach.

Re: Purdue 2012-2013 Athletics thread

If winning 3 games (first 3 game winning streak of Hope's Purdue career btw) against the worst 3 teams in the conference and finishing a regular season at .500 (w/ no wins against bowl eligible teams) is enough for Hope to keep his job then not just hope but Morgan Burke need to be fired. The absolute only case for Burke to keep Hope is he's fine with mediocrity.

Burke's 100% driven by keeping the athletic department in the black. Attendance has declined every year of Hope's tenure. Making bottom tier bowls doesn't help the finances either, a lot of the time they end up actually costing schools money. I have absolutely no doubt Hope's gone. I don't take pleasure in it, I think Hope's a good man and players genuinely like playing for him so I hope he lands on his feet, but he is nowhere near a Big Ten coach.

Although bizarrely enough, he was probably a Ricardo Allen tweak away from beating the end of reg-season #1 team on the road. (Granted, he coached that game poorly).

Re: Purdue 2012-2013 Athletics thread

After four seasons as Purdue's head football coach, Danny Hope is out.

GoldandBlack.com has learned Hope and players were informed Sunday, a day after Purdue's bowl-clinching win over Indiana, that Hope would not be retained. In four seasons as Purdue's head coach, Hope was 22-27, including the 4-8 record the Boilermakers posted in 2010, a season virtually destroyed by injury. Purdue will play in its second consecutive bowl game.

Purdue won seven games in 2011 and won the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl in Detroit, its first bowl appearance since 2007.

But the Boilermakers - with a team Hope called his best since he's been at Purdue - came into 2012 hoping for more, considered following a 3-1 start to be a potential contender in the Big Ten's Leaders Division among those programs eligible to play in the Big Ten title game.

But the opening of the Big Ten season was an unmitigated disaster for Purdue, which lost its first five conference games, four of them by way of blowout. The Boilermakers rebounded to beat struggling Iowa and Illinois, then Indiana, to become bowl-eligible, but it wasn't enough to save Hope.

GoldandBlack.com had learned that it was the second of those blowouts, a 38-14 loss to Wisconsin Oct. 13, that essentially sealed Hope's fate and compelled Purdue to decide a change would be made following the season.

And in recent weeks, Purdue, as it did a year ago prior to extending Hope's contract, mobilized for a coaching search, researching potential candidates and asking for monetary contributions, seeking to put together a war chest of a targeted amount of around $4.5 million for its pursuit of its next staff.

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Purdue could pursue recently dismissed Auburn head coach Gene Chizik. Chizik has a history in the Midwest having coached at Iowa State before being hired at Auburn, plus his recruiting abilities would be a big step in the right direction for the Boilermakers.